Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
6 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 13K265
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 6
- Highest: US History
- 65%
- Lowest: Algebra I
- 8.3%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 8.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 8.3% of the 72 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 34.4% of 61 test takers (city: 47.6%).
Source: New York City Department of Education, School Quality Reports (NYC Open Data, dataset dnpx-dfnc), data updated 2026-04-09. School year 2024-25. City rates are computed by GeniusPrep from the published school figures.
All 6 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on US History (−4.8 points against the city's 69.8%), the largest on Algebra I (8.3% against 42%, 33.7 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on US History (65%) and the lowest on Algebra I (8.3%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 38.3% in 2017-18 (107 test takers) to 8.3% in 2024-25 (72), down 30 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 57.5% to 42% (−15.5 points). The largest move on any other exam is Global History: 32.3% in 2017-18, 48.3% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts ranks 511th (tied with 2 other schools at 8.3%). In Brooklyn it is 145th of 147.
Algebra II, Earth Science, Chemistry and Languages Other Than English: fewer than 15 students sat these exams here in 2024-25, so the DOE published no pass rate. The number of test takers is still shown in the table. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Physics.
Every Regents exam, 2024-25
Share of the students who took each exam at this school during the 2024-25 school year who scored 65 or higher, next to the same rate across New York City and Brooklyn.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Brooklyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 72 | 8.3% | 42% | −33.7 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 20 | 10% | 42.7% | −32.7 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 1 | not published | 61.5% | — | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 40 | 60% | 71.7% | −11.7 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 61 | 34.4% | 47.6% | −13.2 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 8 | not published | 44.1% | — | 46% |
| Chemistry | 11 | not published | 53.6% | — | 54.7% |
| Global History | 58 | 48.3% | 73.3% | −25 | 71% |
| US History | 40 | 65% | 69.8% | −4.8 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 3 | not published | 92.1% | — | 92.4% |
“Not published”: fewer than 15 students took the exam here that year, and the DOE withholds the rate. The exam names link to our score calculator for that exam, which converts a raw score with the official NYSED chart.
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Year by year, 2017-18 to 2024-25
Percent scoring 65 or higher, with the number of test takers underneath. The DOE published no Regents pass rates for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, when most Regents exams were cancelled during the pandemic.
| Exam | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 38.3%107 | 26.7%90 | 11.3%62 | 22.5%71 | 17.5%63 | 8.3%72 |
| Geometry | 4.6%65 | 14.3%49 | 7.7%39 | 3.7%27 | 11.1%27 | 10%20 |
| Algebra II | 22.6%31 | 21.2%33 | 3.7%27 | 0%42 | 11.5%26 | n/p1 |
| English (ELA) | 65.4%78 | 75.8%62 | 76.4%55 | 63.1%84 | 71.4%35 | 60%40 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 48.2%85 | 36.3%80 | 16.7%36 | 31.3%32 | 18.3%60 | 34.4%61 |
| Earth Science | 27%74 | 5.6%72 | n/p6 | 13%23 | 18.2%22 | n/p8 |
| Chemistry | 34.6%26 | 31.6%19 | n/p10 | 29.4%17 | n/p10 | n/p11 |
| Physics | n/p4 | n/p8 | — | — | — | — |
| Global History | 32.3%99 | 52.9%87 | 47.1%51 | 30.8%39 | 25%56 | 48.3%58 |
| US History | 59.3%59 | 54.2%59 | — | 48.6%35 | 37.5%40 | 65%40 |
| Languages Other Than English | 81.8%22 | n/p7 | — | 53.3%15 | n/p1 | n/p3 |
n/p: not published (fewer than 15 test takers). A dash: no line for this school and exam in the DOE file that year. From 2024-25, the DOE groups Living Environment with the new Life Science: Biology exam and reports Earth Science as Earth and Space Sciences. Nothing on this page is estimated.
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- Regents pass rates for the 557 New York City public schools with 2024-25 figures — city and borough rates for every exam, and those schools side by side.
- Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School average SAT score — the same school on the SAT, from the same DOE reports.
- Regents score calculator — turn a raw score into the official scale score, for every exam and sitting since 2014.
- What a 65 costs on each Regents exam — how many raw points the passing mark has taken, sitting by sitting.
- Regents tutoring — one-on-one preparation for the exam your child is sitting next.
- Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts on schools.nyc.gov — the DOE’s own page for this school.
Figures from NYC Open Data — School Quality Reports, Multi-Year Metrics, New York City Department of Education (data updated 2026-04-09). Metric definitions: DOE School Quality educator guide. Method and caveats are set out on the index page.